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NASA’s NuSTAR Scans the Sun with X-ray Vision
The west limb of the Sun imaged by NuSTAR and SDO reveals areas of high-energy x-rays above particularly active regions (NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC)
What if you had x-ray vision like Superman? Or if those funny-looking glasses they advertised in comic books in the 60s actually worked?* Then with those our Sun might look something like this, lighting up with brilliant flares of high-energy x-rays as seen by NASA’s super-sensitive NuSTAR Space Telescope (and with a little help from SDO.)
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Read the rest of NASA’s NuSTAR Scans the Sun with X-ray Vision (520 words)
© Jason Major for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Post tags: coronal heating, Cosmology, Dark Matter, nanoflares, NASA, NuSTAR, sun, universe, X-ray
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/117574/nasas-nustar-scans-the-sun-with-x-ray-vision/
